An experiment in connectivity

Gallery of recently transmitted images (most recent at upper left)

WearCam has been an experiment in connectivity, starting early 1994,
running on and off until September 15, 1996 (shut down when I went
to ICIP 96 in Lousanne, due to poor net connection from there).
After the conference, I decided that
extensive revisions were in order:
with further development of the
pencigraphic image compositing algorithm
that assembles the images transmitted from my wearable computer system to
the base station on the roof of building 54. The hope is to have
near-realtime performance using a 64-processor system.

The new parallel-processor pencigraphic image compositing tool
will hopefully be up and running in the next few months.

Previously, the
image assembly has been slow, but hopefully the "painting with looks"
environment maps will be back online soon, at the much higher (near realtime)
data rate.

The WearCam project is also in
need of some UROP students to convert everything over to
Java or something like that so that the environment maps are
interactive (so people can navigate my current sphere of view in
real time in a more intuitive way)

WearCam was one of the first cameras (perhaps it was the second
camera to appear on the WWW) on the Internet, inspired by the
coffee pot camera
in the UK.

To update images:
Mosaic users: Select "Reload Images" from the "File" menu
Netscape users: Click on "Reload"
(large images, to which these are hyperlinks, continue to update, hence,
after some time,
will not match these icons unless updated)